Report on the Blog

I've been getting around 21,000 page views a week. Not a lot of movement up or down over the last month, but up over 6 months. Yesterday I got a grand total of 68 cents from Adsense, the google service. My worst day ever, I think. But today I'm already at $6.78 what with the Adsense for Feeds, which I'm not even sure what it means, but it pays. My best day ever was $21. I'm trying to do some paying journalism about the relationship of traffic and revenue, how many blogs will be monetized. Question: if the New York Times is getting a 1000 times my traffic, or Slate is, or TPM, which if you go to Alexa, the multiples aren't even 1000 for some of these guys– well does that mean they're only getting 1000 times my revenue? Isn't it a roll of the dice for them as much as for me? Any ideas readers have about this topic, and actually of the ways that journalism is going to be paid for in the next 10 years or 20, I'm interested in. Thanks.